"I'm
from Downers Grove, Illinois. We had a blackout there
the other day, but fortunately the police made him get
back into his car before he got too far."

But of course, this is really
a joke about "police
racism" and
"racial
profiling"—the target of the joke is white
people. There are actually over 900 blacks in Downer's
Grove, which has a population of 48,724. But it still
qualifies as a
Whitopia, not nearly diverse enough for
diversophiles.

However, the point remains
that
Martin Luther King is so untouchable that for Emo
Phillips, a man for whom literally nothing is sacred, to
joke harmlessly about him is a threat to what career he
has left.